Friday, February 5, 2010

Regular readers of the Chief’s Corner know that I have a keen interest in history, and from time to time post stories about artifactsaround the police station. A couple of months ago, for one reason or another, I noticed the demise of the phone booth in Lincoln. I just couldn’t find one. I wanted to snap a photo to preserve the history, but despite keeping an eye peeled on my normal routes of travel, I had no luck.

Last Thursday, I jokingly mentioned this on my monthly radio show with Dale Johnson, at KFOR radio. The lines lit up, and in short order citizens clued me in to the location of a handful. One of those, it turns out, is on the northeast corner of N. 27th and Holdrege Streets—directly across from the Lincoln Police Department’s Center Team station. I’ve only driven by this a few thousand times. There it was, hiding in plain sight.

It's hard to tell from the angle of the photo, but it could be a bird, it could be a plane, but it's certainly faster than a bullet or a speeding train. And, it's able to leap tall buildings with a single bound. Probably need x-ray vision to see clearly unless there is Kryptonite present in the vicinity.

Maybe this should be your new phone boothhttp://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/michigan-sheriff-drives-drug-dealers-confiscated-ford-mustang/19345330?icid=main|htmlws-sb-n|dl1|link6|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fnation%2Farticle%2Fmichigan-sheriff-drives-drug-dealers-confiscated-ford-mustang%2F19345330

As a realtor, several years ago I showed a house where the whole covered back porch was made out of phone booths. Found out the owner had worked for LT&T and when they were scrapped, he took them home.

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